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so right here I've got the asrock desk mini 300 series this is an upgrade over the 110 series in that it now supports eighth and ninth Gen Intel CPUs on top of the already sixth and seventh gen CPUs so you got a lot of flexibility with this unit and you've got two slots of ddr4 sodium memory support today we're going to be adding in two four gigabyte sticks as well as an i-5 9400 since this does support cpus up to 65 watt TDP so you can put the 8400 and the 9400 inside with the stock intel cooler you should be ok you can also put an 8700 in but it will be slightly throttled at the 65 watt TDP limit on top of that you've got MDOT to support and asrock have thrown in to solder cables as well so if you wish to put a solder SSD inside you can still do that too and the best thing is you've got a VESA mounting support kit which right here today we're going to be mounting this unit on the back of a monitor so with this unit you can say goodbye to those all-in-one PCs that have all those proprietary parts put this on the back of a monitor and if something goes wrong or you wish to upgrade a particular component then you can do that with ease with this unit and now the best thing about this unit is it's currently coming in at 157 US dollars on Newegg right now in terms of Aussie pricing I'll update the description below I don't think it's quite hit the Australian retail channels yet before this price you get the case the motherboard as well as the power adapter the two SATA cables USB two front extension as well as a decom support and you also get the dual band MDOT two Wi-Fi kit included as well and also a vase amount but I'm not sure if the vase amount comes included with the 157 dollar price tag I think you guys spend like an extra eight bucks to get it but of course it's an optional extra I'm pretty sure not everyone's gonna be mounting their desk minis to the back of some budget monitor like I'm gonna do here today and now the unit self comes in just under 900 grams but if you want to add in a cpu m2 and a cooler and some RAM it'll come at just under 1.2 kilograms dimensions is 154 mil by a hundred and fifty five millimeters by eighty millimeters in depth so it's a very small unit smaller than my hand and very lightweight but though outside let's quickly feed the bird outside on my back porch they're making some noise then we'll get on to building this thing testing it out in some easy to play games like apex legends at 720p and then also see if we can run 4k Netflix since it does have DisplayPort 1.2 HDMI 1.4 VGA and 2 USB ports one gigabit per second Nick none of the front you get USB type-c and an extra USB 3.1 and so there it is old mounted and ready to go we picked this monitor up of course off a used deal in the used part son of the month I'll put the link up here if you haven't seen it ready 50 Aussie dollars and it's about like 30-something USD so absolutely dirt cheap to pick one of these monitors up and since this box is pretty small and pretty cheap you can get yourself like an all-in-one solution like this for next to nothing but that aside let's install everything and boot this thing up so now we're finished up over 10 minutes of stress testing everything is installed on this PC and the temperature tests are looking really good hasn't even hit 80 degrees and that's considering the Fant is just on silent mode still I just let you guys quickly try and listen to it yeah like that's how quiet it is it's still whisper quiet and the funny thing about the i-5 9400 is six cores but they're going at 3.9 gigahertz and they're only using up 46 watts so this CPUs even more refined than the 8400 at least from what I'm seeing here on the desk Mini now I also got the FLIR one temperature IR sensor out and that's showing that the vrm is getting to about 86 degrees and everything else is well controlled I mean with 45 watts being dumped in the case it's not that big of a deal you probably hold your hand up to 45 watts and not get burnt weight you probably would get burn on 45 watts don't don't take my word for that so now in the blast for this h3 10 STX motherboard and it's got the option to up the ddr4 memory speeds to 2600 CC's megahertz there is however no CPU control at least with the i5 9400 and another thing about the i5 9400 is I couldn't install the latest VGA drivers so I'm not sure if I'm gonna be able to play apex legends but we'll find out anyway in terms of the USB speeds I tested them out they work perfectly fine with a fast transfer of my kingston external drive and also the internet speeds are very smooth on the NIC and both the wireless and work in terms of the asrock boss that sells got good details got good features just like you'd expect out of a typical asrock boss got the hardware monitor ability to update your boss via an internet connection and in this case we're able to tune our memory speeds so we're gonna try and set them to 2666 and lastly the biggest differences between the desk Mini 300 series versus the 100 series is the ability to go up to that 2600 66 megahertz up from two thousand four hundred megahertz but also the MDOT two now supports solder as well as nvme PCIe and the original 100 series it only support a PCIe modules and they are a little bit more expensive or tend to be more expensive than the saddle modules I'm using a 500 you buy that I bought brand-new and I got that for around 70 US dollars so it's ridiculously cheap and then of course you have the eighth and ninth gen CPUs but in this case this 9400 is just sipping power so we're gonna see how well it does in dota 2 hopefully it plays apex legends the no I'm doing real so we like this just feels we're not in slaughter party so that's my first time using a trackpad while trying to play games and I'm just gonna say it's gonna be my last time as well this dota 2 itself the performance was actually better since the last time I've used onboard HD graphics I tried it I think like a couple of years ago and now on dota 2 we can play 1080p lowest settings but at a hundred percent screen resolution getting around eighty average FPS and the point one percent one percent lows are actually decent to coming around 50 and then the lowest I saw was thirty so very smooth experience for dota 2 and the good thing about the i-5 9400 is that all the cores are running a 3.9 gigahertz I believe that's up from the i-5 8400 3.8 to and beyond that 20fps II feel so unfortunately apex legends did terrible the lowest possible settings at 720p everything just dropped we're getting around 30 average FPS so you'd have to be desperate to play this game on these HD graphics to play Apex legends of course it is playable it's just you know it's a terrible experience but the 17.1% lawyers were still decent in comparison to the 30fps number where we saw him drop down to like 17 and 12 so there's that and on top of that we also tested Cinebench 942 points pretty impressive considering we were using so dim memory I managed to clock that up to 2600 66 which was pretty good and then the power consumption as well from the water meter while we're doing a fire strike and bind test was about 50 watts and then the idle power consumption on the desktop in high performance mode was about 25 watts - and then the last thing was the fire strike test where the physics score went over 12,000 points so that's a pretty good score considering we're using 45 watts with the CPU and then the GPU score was really bad coming just over 1,100 points especially in a nutshell with the CPU performance it's really good GPU performance is lackluster but we're gonna see if that GPU performance right now is able to run 4k Netflix smoothly reveal new one wise Thomas and I let his really costly so 4k Netflix I actually didn't get a proper test I think it wasn't in 4k cuz Australian internet it is that bad but the 4k YouTube demo was very smooth its 4k 30 Hertz because it's not hdmi 2.0 so it takes you my 1.4 but I mean human I can't see more than 30 Hertz anyway so doesn't matter but ultimately Tom's Hardware had it right with the wording just by it but they unfortunately had it on the wrong product this here at 157 dollars is a really good buy if you're looking for a small form-factor case I mean I was just so impressed with it because of the low power consumption I mean the onboard HD graphics is obviously the Achilles heel in this product but everything else is amazing the size the fact that you can mount it onto the back of a budget monitor and so you can really make a budget office PC or a budget desktop PC or a budget anything really budget Netflix streaming PC or in this case you could even set up super nodes for whatever or a little service so possibilities are endless with this thing I love what they've done in terms of making it even more budget oriented in the fact that they've added MDOT to sada and not just n dot two PCIe nvme the memory speeds also helped out a little bit as we saw at those gaming benchmarks some of the best numbers i've seen out of the onboard HD graphics but don't expect to play things like apex legends you can definitely get away with playing dota 2 bit of csgo and League of Legends should be fine at 1080p and of course small form-factor lightweight makes this thing really good the wireless connectivity included is really strong too so I was getting full bars throughout this whole studio and sometimes on my other devices for instance on my Intel nook I only get three bars from right at the end of the studio they're so included Wi-Fi is pretty strong everything checks out on this unit I'm very impressed with it hey guys if you enjoyed this video to be sure to hit that like button also let us know in the comment section below what you think of the desk mini me personally I'd love to see an AMD solution especially with what we saw here with apex legends I think if we had like a 2,200 G in this thing for cause with that better beefed up onboard graph I think we could see some better numbers playable on apex legends I'd love to see that I'm gonna request Ezreal do one of those because this form factor is amazing also on that note as ralph did send this out as a review sample and they are a channel sponsor but if you've seen my earlier content you know that doesn't affect my opinion whatsoever and with that said I'll catch you guys in another tech video very soon peace out for now buddy